He could hear those words of her mama still   The talk of the ways and the always will be's   She'd laugh at the time and pretend to be free   But she'd never run far from the legacy   She's trying the wind like the crack of a whip   She places her fingertips up to her lips   She thinks of a feeling that she can't quite recall   And a few days when she'd been ahead of it all   She stepped past the clocks   She stepped high and wide   Strong and true to the other side   Kickin' away all the mud from her heels   To the time of the dance   To the second chance   To the dust and the hours passed under the wheels   Oh she stepped to the time of the dance   She says sometimes being a husband and wife   Feels like a fight against natural life   And that there is no bigger chain on your soul   And you're always dancing out in the cold   Sometimes the light hits the side of his face   And it fills up your heart like a soft embrace   She knows that the struggle is more than a day   More than the words that her mama could say   Well they stepped past the clocks   They stepped high and wide   Strong and true to the other side   Kicking away all the mud from their heels   To the time of the time    To the second chance   To the dust and the hours passed under the wheels   Oh they stepped to the time of the dance   She said turn off the tv   Hush all the sound   All you can hear is the rain   Just slip out the doorway   And let the rain fall down   Steal all the light brushing back to our town   Well we'll step past the clocks    Step high and wide   Strong and true to the other side   Kicking away all the mud from their heels   To the time of the dance   The second chance   Til the dust and the hours passed under the wheels   We'll step to the time of the dance   Oh we'll step to the time of the dance